Con Court’s full reasons for dismissal of Chamisa 2018 Presidential Election Petition

Constitutional Court’s Full Judgment Explaining Why the Court

Source: Con Court’s full reasons for dismissal of Chamisa 2018 Presidential Election Petition – The Zimbabwean

Dismissed Mr Chamisa’s 2018 Presidential Election Petition

The Constitutional Court has just released its  full reasons for its 24th August 2018 decision dismissing Mr Chamisa’s election petition:  Judgment CCZ 21/19, Nelson Chamisa & 24 Others v Emmerson Mnangagwa.  The judgment is available on the Veritas website [link]. 

Veritas intends to distribute an analysis of this judgment due course.

Reminder : Background

• On 30th July 2018 Zimbabweans voted in the Presidential, Parliamentary and local authority elections.
• On 3rd August the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission declared Mr Mnangagwa, the ZANU PF candidate in the Presidential election, duly elected as President of Zimbabwe.
• On 10th August Mr Chamisa, the MDC-A candidate in the Presidential election, challenged the validity of this result by lodging an election petition in the Constitutional Court.
• On 22nd August the court heard arguments from the parties’ lawyers.
• On 24th August the court handed down its decision dismissing Mr Chamisa’s election petition, declaring Mr Mnangagwa the winner of the Presidential election, providing an abridged version of its reasons [link] and promising that its full reasons would be issued in due course.

Note: Section 93 of the Constitution of Zimbabwe obliges the Constitutional Court to determine such an election petition within fourteen days after it was lodged.

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